Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

No level of obstacle can prevail in crippling a mind that's continuously fed with positive self-talk.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

Check your spiritual birth certificate, you were made in the mighty image of God.

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

I like food way too much to not eat.

She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.